Tuesday, 30 October 2012

As New York City experiences the Superstorm Sandy which has disturbed the functioning of the city, analysts are still in the process of the estimating the cost of the hurricane. According to the BBC News Magazine, some analysts expected damage totalling $10 billion to $20 billion.

A Superstorm is usually referred to as the downgraded version of a hurricane.

Investopedia, few months back did a study on the 5 costliest hurricanes in

The Huffington Post and other popular US websites struggled
to get back on their feet Tuesday after superstorm Sandy knocked them out of
cyberspace.

On its homepage, the Huffington Post blamed power outages triggered by Monday's
storm for "technical difficulties" as it offered readers minimalist
post-storm updates with no photos or links to other parts of its vast site.

"We are working around the clock to get the site back to normal," it
said in a boldface editor's note.

The hip Manhattan-centric website Gawker and stablemates such as Jezebel and
Gizmodo were also out of action overnight, although Gawker managed to restore
minimal service using an old-school live blog format.

Buzzfeed invited its visitors Tuesday to proceed to the website's Tumblr,
Twitter and Facebook accounts for fresh content, in the absence of homepage updates
since Monday.

On its Tumblr account, Buzzfeed said it was told by DataGram an Internet
service provider that also serves the Huffington Post and Gawker that it had
sustained serious flooding during the storm.